Republicans are more critical of their own party than Democrats are of theirs

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Pat Cunningham offers an unabashedly liberal perspective on national politics. A note of caution: The language gets a little salty on some of the sites to which this blog links. So, don't say you weren't warned. By the way, this blog's name is
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Pat Cunningham offers an unabashedly liberal perspective on national politics. A note of caution: The language gets a little salty on some of the sites to which this blog links. So, don't say you weren't warned. By the way, this blog's name is inspired by the Will Rogers quote, \x34All politics is applesauce.\x34 In 41 years as a print and broadcast journalist, most of those years with the Rockford (Ill.) Register Star, Pat has covered national politics under eight American presidents. He's attended 10 national political conventions, Republican and Democratic alike, and has interviewed countless prominent political players, including Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, Gerald Ford and George H.W. Bush.

Republicans have been harder on themselves than Democrats have during the shutdown. Thirty-five percent of Republicans held their own party responsible for the shutdown in the Ap-GfK poll, compared to 28 percent of Democrats who said the same thing. And Republicans are more than twice as likely to hold an unfavorable view of their own party as Democrats are, the Gallup poll showed. The last thing the GOP needs as it seeks to unify, expand its reach and attract new voters is anger directed inward. But thatís ...